Yearly Archives: 2003
Camp Texas welcomes freshmen to The University of Texas at Austin
Aug. 6, 2003
More than 400 incoming freshmen from The University of Texas at Austin will get a jump start on their university experience next week (Aug. 11-17) by attending Camp Texas, a three-day retreat in the Texas Hill Country.
President forms student, officers committee to review and recommend tuition policy
Aug. 6, 2003
A Tuition Policy Committee, consisting of students and campus officers working together to review and recommend tuition policy, has been established for The University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Larry R. Faulkner, president of the university, said Wednesday.
Associate vice president joins UT System administration; Randa Safady named vice chancellor for external relations
Aug. 4, 2003
Randa S. Safady, an executive at The University of Texas at Austin since 1996, has been appointed to the newly titled position of vice chancellor for external relations at The University of Texas System.
Federal funding needed for mental health reform, consultant to presidential commission says
July 29, 2003
New federal funding and the highest level of flexibility will be required to achieve the goals outlined in a new report by a presidential commission on improving the nation's mental health system, the head of the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health at The University of Texas at Austin said.
University of Texas at Austin team wins one of two challenges in warm-up round for international computer simulation competition
July 28, 2003
A team from The University of Texas at Austin beat 19 competitors in a computer simulation challenge that precedes an international simulation competition in Mexico.
Faulkner appoints UT Police Department advisory committee
July 28, 2003
President Larry R. Faulkner has appointed Professor M. Michael Sharlot, former dean of the School of Law, as chair of the first Police Oversight Committee for the university.
The digitization and online project of the Ransom Center’s Gutenberg Bible
July 22, 2003
Already notable as owner of one of five complete copies of the Gutenberg Bible in the United States, The University of Texas at Austin's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center has joined a handful of international institutions in digitizing its copy of the rare Bible.
Engineers create promising nanotechnology for oral delivery of cancer drugs
July 22, 2003
AUSTIN, Texas—Polymer nanospheres just 1/100 a hair’s width in diameter and loaded with potent anti-cancer drugs could one day become a powerful weapon in the chemotherapy arsenal, two University of Texas at Austin biomedical engineers reported today at the Controlled Release Society’s 30th Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Glasgow, Scotland. Jay Blanchette, a biomedical engineering… » Continue Reading
More than 12 percent of Texans have been sexually assaulted, new University of Texas at Austin social work study says
July 21, 2003
About 1.9 million adult Texans have been sexually assaulted some time in their life--revealing a much larger problem than indicated by Uniform Crime Reports--according to a new study by The University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work.
UT Austin/NASA gravity model provides extraordinary new accuracy to oceanographers
July 21, 2003
Improved weather and climate change predictions now result from a model of earth's gravity field 10 to 50 times more accurate than previous models, thanks to engineers at The University of Texas Center for Space Research. The aerospace engineers used information from the twin Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites they launched slightly over a year ago as a joint project between NASA and the German Aerospace Center.
